As you might know, Noatun (with a Kaiman module) is the new KDE 2.1 multimedia player. Noatun supports plugins on a very deep level, and a rich API allows large amount of control of the entire
application. A new document is now available with developer information on writing playlists, user interfaces, visualizations, and even coffee-makers for Noatun. ;-) Also available, an API reference.

I wish!
Some work needs to be done on arts. It's a pain for me. It doesn't like my via sound chip. but the OSS drivers in 2.4 also has problems. the problem sounds like its treating a 48khz output as a 44khz one.

Excellent!
Arts sucks. All that modular stuff behind it are
great ideas, but in the real world I guess it
becomes the only really stinky thing in KDE2.
In my PII-266 usually crash few seconds after
launch, as eats all cpu and keeps waiting for more :-(
I don't believe a PIII 700 or an Athlon should be the entry level for sound in KDE! :-(

Hmm, that must be some problem with your soundcard/driver. I can use arts for hours playing mp3s with xmms and the xmms-arts plugin. No problems at all. It eats up quite some ressources, though but it doesn't crash. Then again I prefer being able to hear my ICQ messages while listening to music.

I have KDE 2.1 CVS from some hours ago and run Kernel 2.4.1 on an AMD K6/2 500. I used to have problems with arts crashing in KDE 2.0 but they're definately gone in the KDE Version I use now.

I use KDE 2.0.1 on my FreeBSD 4.1.1 box. I'm running a K6-2 400 system with 128 megs of ram and a Yamaha OPL-SAx sound card using the pcm drivers.

Overall, KDE2 is quite nice. Although, the arts thing rarely wants to start. It usually crashes/exits without any explanation as to why. Sometimes I get a surprise by the Startup.wav when I first startx into KDE2, but it pretty much goes dead until I exit KDE2.

I just hope that the new KDE 2.1 version that is in development has better support for FreeBSD in general as well as a better working arts daemon.

Keep up the good work and don't forget that some of us BSD junkies do like KDE.